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The problem of installing prepackaged applications was solved decades before Docker was a thing.
by Sharlin 7y ago
The problem of installing prepackaged applications was solved decades before Docker was a thing.
- LoSboccacc 7y agoeven considering puppet etc things weren't this simple, the base image depends on the provider so you'd get variants depending on the kernel and glibc version, especially with openvz based host now, on bare metal server and premium providers where you're able to specify the boot image that wouldn't have been a problem, but there are lot more people dealing with cheap housing giving you whatever image they baked last than people doing bare metal deployments and for the former docker is an order of magnitude easier to deploy
- IshKebab 7y agoEvidently not or Docker wouldn't exist. Yes, Docker is a shitty solution to just packaging applications, but it exists because Linux developers keep saying "apt exists. It's solved! What's the problem? Static linking? Why would you want that? Portable binaries? But apt is the only place you need to put your app so you don't need them!"